However, the international experience of distribution of benefits
from community forests among participant households varies widely.
Studies in developing countries have concluded that poor people often
have restricted access to forest and tree resources,while influential people
are able to harness the resources (Mahanty et al., 2009). In contrast,
the other studies in developing countries have concluded that community
forestry can contribute to poverty reduction as the poor members
have easy access to forest resources and that commercialization of the
forest products provides benefits to poor members (Baral, 2008;
Mahanty et al., 2009; Sharma, 2002). Themajor barriers to the successful
implementation of community forestry are institutional and organizational
rather than technical (Fisher and Gilmour, 1990).5